Ernst Scheibelreiter

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Ernst Scheibelreiter (born November 13, 1897 in Vienna ; † March 3, 1973 there ) was an Austrian writer and poet.

Life

Scheibelreiter attended natural science and linguistic courses at the University of Vienna and worked as a private teacher, publishing editor and, from 1926, as a freelance writer. In addition, from the 1920s he worked as a freelancer in the emerging radio, wrote radio plays and made his successful debut as a playwright in 1930 with the play Aufruhr im Dorf . Scheibelreiter was awarded numerous prizes for his poems, essays, stories and dramas early on , for example the City of Vienna Prize for Literature in 1926 .

Scheibelreiter represented German national convictions. His village and nature romantic works of the 1930s served the blood-and-soil ideology of the National Socialists . In his application for membership in the Reich Chamber of Literature in October 1933, Scheibelreiter emphasized that he had joined the “Association of German-Aryan Writers” around Max Mell and had already attended illegal meetings before that. Even if Scheibelreiter never joined the NSDAP , he subsequently turned to National Socialism and in 1936 joined the Association of German Writers in Austria . After the “ Anschluss ” in March 1938, Scheibelreiter was mainly active in film and radio, where he wrote his Viennese Punch and Judy plays . On the one hand, Scheibelreiter's radio work was promoted by the Nazi regime, on the other hand, Scheibelreiter's play Shepherds around the Wolf, for example, was banned from performance.

After the end of the Second World War , Scheibelreiter mainly worked as an author for young people. Scheibelreiter became a member of the Austrian Writers' Association in 1947 , but subsequently sued the president of the association, Edwin Rollett , because Scheibelreiter had dubbed Scheibelreiter as a "Nazi writer". In 1949 he left the association.

Scheibelreiter's honorary grave is located at the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 38, row 6, no. 8).

Awards

Honors

In 1979, in the district Grinzing in Vienna- Döbling the Scheibelreiter street named after him.

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  1. ↑ a b Street names of Vienna since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 203, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  2. ↑ a b Scheibelreiter, Ernst on the pages of the Austria Lexicon .

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SURNAME Scheibelreiter, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1973
Place of death Vienna